The economic calendar has been light thus far in October, and for most of the coming week, it will be too. However, traders will be paying attention to the Euro-Zone inflation data on Tuesday before the October ECB rate decision the following week.

Policy remains ultra-loose in Japan, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. But – there are other risks to continued Yen weakness, and these are factors that traders will likely want to keep an eye on.

In the week ahead, there aren’t very many significant fundamental points of interest which are likely to sway markets, but technically markets, while strong, are at a point where caution is warranted near-term.